Jul 24 2009Man Climbs Building With DIY Vacuum Gloves
This is a video of inventor Jem Stansfield climbing the exterior of a BBC building to show off a pair of vacuum gloves he made out of an old vacuum. Amazingly, he gets to the top, but I question how much assistance he got from the rope holder. Also, if those gloves are that strong and made out of a crappy old vacuum, imagine Dyson-powered vacuum gloves. It would suck the paint off a building! And, God willing, I would eat those paint chips.
Man climbs building with vacuum gloves [bbcnews]
Thanks to Ross, who once made vacuum boots but didn't tie them tight enough and plummeted eight stories.
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Reader Comments
1. 1st - July 24, 2009 5:57 PM
1st
2. Johnny B - July 24, 2009 5:58 PM
I wonder what else he does with those hand vacs?
Hopefully they are wet/dry vacs....
3. dliup - July 24, 2009 6:15 PM
Cool!
They tried that on myth busters a while ago. Except Adam's rig isn't as good, and that Mythbuster's Adam ran out of breath after a few floors.
4. Matty - July 24, 2009 6:26 PM
what...? what's this extension chord?
*yoink*
SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.........
GI JOOOOEEE!
5. Pistol Pete - July 24, 2009 6:28 PM
This video sucks
6. Matty - July 24, 2009 6:28 PM
ha.. extension CORD.. wisdom toof surgery on monday.. i'm on drugs.. and have little to do except sit around and play guitar... and surf the internbutts... and then i fail.
7. Pew³ - July 24, 2009 6:31 PM
@4 like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK5eMwUd6-M
8. matt - July 24, 2009 6:36 PM
people should stop trying to make mythbusters rip-offs
9. Freddy K - July 24, 2009 6:37 PM
Well this puts the suck back in success.
10. *AGATHA* - July 24, 2009 6:51 PM
And a Darwin Nomination goes to.......
11. Matty - July 24, 2009 6:54 PM
@7 EXACCERY!!
That's the funniest of the series in my opinion.. it says all you need to know in 7 seconds.. and knowing (quickly) is half the battle...
12. fetus_mcnuggets - July 24, 2009 9:19 PM
just octopi vaginae sand papered down to make negro-paddles
biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig whoop
13. nadalo日本にいます。SHADOWS ALL WRONG - July 24, 2009 9:25 PM
One small step for a geek a giant leap for all nerds....
BTW Stanley Kubrick filmed the fake landing on the moon.....just saying....
14. Yeags - July 24, 2009 10:55 PM
I think Mythbusters episodes air a year later in England. You blokes are behind the times!
15. Anexio - July 25, 2009 10:09 AM
Seriously, did you see the second douchbag climber, the one WITHOUT the vacuum gloves make it to the top first?
It would have been much cooler if the vacuum glove douchbag had fallen to a painful death. For that I would have given him a 10 out of 10.
Out
16. Tweetme_Townissnatty - July 25, 2009 11:09 AM
Thats pretty cool.... I wanna try it.
www. twitter. com/townissnatty
17. jaja - July 25, 2009 11:34 AM
seventeenth ?
18. jaja - July 25, 2009 11:35 AM
YESSSSSSSSSSSS
19. Daisy - July 25, 2009 12:49 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never BAck Down where Max and Baja were climbong up the side of a building with ropes and Sammy Davis Junior popped out a window and greeted them.
20. Jaded Icon - July 25, 2009 1:08 PM
Vacuums are only good for one thing.........masterbaton.
21. jaime - July 25, 2009 3:19 PM
the rope is just there for safety, it's not pulling him up. if you look closely you'll see it isn't tight all the time.
22. Pat - July 25, 2009 3:26 PM
@13 No wonder the production quality was so good!!
23. freeyourmind00 - July 26, 2009 12:45 AM
first!
24. Frank Glover - July 26, 2009 11:18 PM
"...does whatever a spider can:"
25. geekofan - July 27, 2009 4:40 AM
check this out >>
http://75684.onodot.com/
26. Producer Nick - October 11, 2009 3:27 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3ml2_6yOgo
If you like the vacuum gloves please check out our next build - a super fast hybrid rocket powered by toffee - on a railway!